365. My Heart Leaps Up

William Wordsworth (1770—1850)

  MY heart leaps up when I behold

  A rainbow in the sky:

  So was it when my life began,

  So is it now I am a man,

  So be it when I shall grow old

  Or let me die!

  The Child is father of the Man:

  And I could wish my days to be

  Bound each to each by natural piety.